Making do: pioneering gentry in north Queensland
This exhibition was on display in the Talbot Family Treasures Wall, level 4, State Library of Queensland between 16 August – 7 December 2008. The following is an excerpt from the exhibition.
On the front steps of the homestead at Gracemere, c. 1872
from the Mackenzie Family Photograph Album
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This display on nineteenth century pioneering life includes fascinating diaries, photographic albums, letters and books from the State Library's John Oxley Library collection. It reveals how people such as the Archers of Gracemere and the Rawsons of The Nyth and The Hollow made do when they exchanged their privileged lives in Britain to seek fortune and adventure in Queensland. Their accounts tell of both the novelty and the hardship of settling in a new country. Some stayed while others returned to the Motherland, or moved to other far flung corners of the British Empire.
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